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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Collaborationists
- Creators: Schoenwetter, James
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
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(Top photo) Bombed American church in Biyang. (Bottom photo)Poster of the Chinese puppets of the Japanese in North China, calling for the overthrow of Chinese rulers and for a Japanese protected "autonomy". Wang Yi-ting (???), who signs the poster, is a landlord, farmer, police officer and member of the old Anfu clique.
ContributorsSchoenwetter, James (Author)
Created1958
Description
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology, 1958. Discusses assumptions and problems of: techniques for extracting and identifying pollen, pollen distributions and deposition, analysis and statistics. Concludes that pollen study alone is not too reliable a methodology for establishing the types or durations of prior climatic events but it is reliable for reconstructing their geographic distributions and hypotheses of the reasons for climatic change.
ContributorsSchoenwetter, James (Author)
Created1957
DescriptionPaper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology, 1957. Brief discussion of the then-present status of pollen analysis in New World archaeology, the potential archaeological value of an oil flotation technique for extracting pollen from sediment samples, and pollen sampling at archaeological sites.
ContributorsSchoenwetter, James (Author)
Created1968
Description
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology, 1968. Argues for necessity to employ an interdisciplinary methodology when archaeologists work with Natural History specialists. This demands learning to translate archaeological problems into paleobotanical research terms, and developing methods properly designed to the task(s) of resolving those problems.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) Proclamation of the New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment north of Hankow (Hankou), announcing the arrest of Chinese traitors. Names given to the list. Those crossed through were tried by court martial and shot.
(Bottom photo) Men arrested as spies or agents of the Japanese in the region north of Hankow (Hankou); they were arrested by the New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) A column of Chinese puppet soldiers who fought for the Japanese. Captured by the New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment in battle. These men were either conscripted or captured and put in the Japanese puppet forces.
(Bottom photo) The secret anti-Japanese "Ten Man Group" captured the head of a Japanese controlled puppet Government who tried to bribe his captors and the martial court that tried him. He was a greasy old degenerate.